JD McPherson has unveiled the music video for "Lucky Penny," the very first taste of his upcoming album, Undivided Heart & Soul.
However, a great deal of the thought behind the heavy new disc struck McPherson during his time in the California desert, where he jammed with Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme. A touch of that experience comes through in "Lucky Penny," a extra-greasy mid-tempo rocker about gambling—"I keep rolling where the bad wind blows / I keep running, but the trouble follows."
Despite his new influences and friends, McPherson maintains his "retro rocker" sound and charm—even tearing it up on a custom TK Smith guitar in the clip.
“JD wanted a Smith Special with a Bo Diddley body instead of the double cutaway,” Smith told us last year. “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do it because I thought it’d be funky, but it came out really cool.” No argument there.
According to press materials, Undivided Heart & Soul chronicles "a series of upheavals, frustrations, roadblocks and kismet—a cross-country move, failed creative relationships, a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity—and learning to love making music again by letting go." It's got us interested; stay tuned for more.
Undivided Heart & Soul, the followup to 2015's Let the Good Times Roll, will be available October 6 via New West Records. You can preorder it here.
For more about McPherson, visit jdmcpherson.com.
